I remember Dannebrog 800 anniversary events that were held here in 2019. It was nice. Also their language sounds nice, I sometimes listen to Kim Larsen, Tommy Seebach or whatever the algorithm comes up with. I've also met some Danish troops here. Good lads.
Thank you for this very very interesting video, I can´t remenber learning anything about Estonia in school. I would love to visit Tallin, such a beautiful city.
Great and interesting video. As a Dane, I learned a couple of new things here. Didn't know about the castle in Narva. Yout trip through Tallinn made me homesick - I spend New years there 2018/19 - 4 days. I loved the city.
In 1985 I went with my 9. klasse to Leningrad for our “skolerejse”(school trip) before we graduated. Our”tolk” (interpreter) was a young woman from Estonia. She had never been outside Estonia before she had the job to interpret for us. Her danish was eloquent and way more “perfect” that that of our teachers. Very impressive. I still remember how astonished we all were about her language. She had learnt Danish from sitting in a small booth for hours on end. Impressive yet scary in a way
The Orthodox Alexander Nevsky Cathedral is quite hated by Estonians as it was built as a symbol of Russian imperialism in a traditionally Lutheran medieval old town and there were even serious plans of demolishing it in the 1920s.
The swedish island of Gotland off the swedish east coast, has lots of connections to Denmark. King Valdemar set up court there. Beautiful nature, charming towns and exiting history.
Cool video, Josh! I honestly did not know any of the places you visited in Estonia, but it was very educational. Looking forward to your next video! For historical danish sites, I recommend you check out Dannevirke in northern Germany. It was built as a defensive wall for Denmark and dates all the way back to the viking age. It was even used by the danish army in 1864, when Prussia invaded.
@@TravelinYoung I would definitely recommend Hedeby (Haithabu in German) as well. It's very close to Dannevirke (Danewerk in German), and was, IIRC, Europe's biggest trading hub in the viking ages.
Wow, this video is so educational from a Danish point of view. I learned about Dannebrog as a kid, but now I feel inspired to visit Estonia. It must be very exciting for you to teach us Danes all this and you must feel very international being a US guy tracing Danish history in Estonia right on the border to Russia! Cool. Thanks for sharing
I think it's fine with most of us, that your sponsored, to some degree. I like that your totally honest about it ! No BS 👍 ! BTW! You Youngs are doing a great job selling Denmark and the rest of Europe to us. Estonia wasn't on the top of my bucket list. It just got upgraded 😊 ! Posted on my FB site. You need to go to the USVI (Dansk Vestindiske Øer). Danish from 1672 -1917. Be aware. They drive on the left. A CBP officer told us that it was something they still did, after the Danes left. He was shocked, when we told him that we'd been driving on the right for more than a 100 years 😎 ! Didn't manage to visit St.Croax. But St.Thomas and St.John were amassing 👍😀👍.
You should check out Vitus Bering. His story is very interesting. He was a Danish cartographer and explorer in Russian service, and an officer in the Russian Navy. He is known as a leader of two Russian expeditions, namely the First Kamchatka Expedition and the Great Northern Expedition, exploring the north-eastern coast of the Asian continent and from there the western coast on the North American continent. The Bering Strait, the Bering Sea, Bering Island, the Bering Glacier and the Bering Land Bridge were all named in his honor.
@@denmark39 lol yeah. Though if they are going to visit America one day again - they could go see Vitus Lake in Alaska, maybe even the Berings strait. Though they can just start in Denmark, in Horsens - where Vitus Bering is from. They have a great collection of stuff on and about him.
@@denmark39 Well, the name "Vitus" has some similarity with a "bad word" in the Finnish language. I don't think any Finn will be offended when hearing this name, but some people seem to love making jokes about this.
Chasing Danish history... Great idea! You could make a trip to Skåne and I recommend you take the very short ferry ride from Helsingør to Helsingborg because that city in of itself is worth a visit. Malmø was once Denmarks second largest city and Lund was where the Archbishop of Denmark resided.
You could visit Schleswig, here is a danish minority a population of approx. 50,000 people, most of them living in Flensborg, which was Danish until 1864. If you have any questions you can contact me
You should visit Skåne, Blekinge and Halland in South Sweden. It was former east Danmark before 1658 and the peace of Roskilde when Danmark was forced to hand over the three provinces after they lost a war to Sweden. Their is a lot of interesting history contacted to Danmark in this part of Sweden.
Love the fact you where in my home country! Live in Norway and been watching your videos before just supper!did you know first real king of Norway was a slave as a child in Estonian island!
I think you should check out the Slesvig (Schlesvig)Holstein area. It's a very interesting place and shows the conflict between Germany and Denmark along the years and into WW2... Moreover, Great Video !!
I find it impressive how popular Denmark seems in Estonia, considering that we were foreigners occupying their land. I don't know how good or bad we were treating the population back then, but I guess Estonia has been so much worse things since then, so perhaps we're just "not so bad" 😁 Anyway, again this time, I like the new format a whole lot. So I hope it'll be sustainable in the long run. Great video and great storytelling, without digging too deep into boring details.
Estonians have been slaves for somewhere around 700 years. We do not act as victims. We show as things were. The Russian Empire built the Nevsky Cathedral to show power over the Estonians. We did not demolish it either in 1918 or in 1991 when Estonia became independent. It's part of our history.
The Swedish occupation is considered to be the best time in Estonian history. Probably not the best time under Denmark because you sold the land to the Germans. The reason was the frequent uprisings of Estonians.
@@rapator9270 thanks for your honest perspective 🙂 hope we can still be friends today. Edit: it's just important to remember that we came as invaders, not liberators.
In my opinion, 'linn' has never had the meaning of a castle in Estonian. Rather, it is from a fortress, 'linnus', which was often built on the hills, which was called city hills [linnamägi]. The opposite is, for example, Viljandi castle hills [lossimäed]. But I'm not a cultural historian.
I believe having read somewhere that the invasion of Estonia required 3000 ships and is thus the second largest naval operation in history after D-day.
@@TravelinYoung yeah. As I remember the story, it was written by an eyewitness who stood on the bank and described the scenery. "There were so many ships that you could not see the water they were on".
You could have taken back home something sweet - Kalev, Estonia’s most beloved chocolate brand has a chocolate box called “Tallinn” and the illustrator for it is Mads Berg and he is Danish.
In Tamil Nadu, Tranquebar; and in W. Bengal, Serampore//Frederiknagore; and rather briefly, the group of islands called the Nicobars, were all subjects of Danish colonial interest in India;; On the Danske Guldkyst, in what is now Ghana, were some 5 busy trading emporiums, the oldest, in what Is now Accra (Ft Christiansborg) and four more trading forts eastward along Ghana's coast. Next, across the Oresund, is the Swedish, but formerly Danish, province of Scania. South of Danish Jutland are the southern parts of that peninsula, the German provinces of Schleswig and Holstein, formerly under the Danish crown. Also under the Danish crown for a significant number of years was the island of Rugen on which, like Estonia, might be found Danish traces. Most people already can name the present "Danish Realm" as well as the long relationship with Norway from which Danish gets her "Oldenburg Dynasty" as well as Iceland which was "inherited" from Norway (to become an independent republic in 1944). As for Estonia, some Danish influence might also be visible on Saaremaa.
I love this video and this concept 🇩🇰🇩🇰🎉🎉😁🤩👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 I would love, if you went to Visby (Gotland, Sweden), Greenland, Iceland, Faroe Islands, Vinland (Canada), The gold Coast in Ghana, Danish Westindies (currently U.S. Virgin Islands), Schleswig (Germany).
To combine some Danish and US history - you could do a trip to the Caribbean and to the old "Danish West Indies" islands that the US purchased in 1917 from Denmark (Saint Thomas, John and Croix).
Ireland or Sweden are obvious choices to visit regarding Danish history :) Ireland (Eire) mostly about the Vikings (You cant visit a pub in Galway and tell people your a Dane, without getting hours of stories about the Vikings - Most Irish people loved them, even though we weren't exactly friendly visitors back then haha) And Sweden about the wars, Kings ect.. :) There´s also the border to Germany, which has been moved up and down several times :)
The word *linn* in old estonian meant 'castle or 'fort''. Since towns developed aroud the castles, the word transferred to also meaning the new type of settlement. Estonians in 13th c. did not have town, so they didn't have a word for it. For example in Saaremaa there are ruins of a danish castle called Maasilinn. Maasi being the name of the village there. There are other examples for 'linn' w/o towns.
Interesting place. Good thing that the Baltic countries have joined NATO and the EU, now that Putin apparently wants to recreate the USSR by force. Other places with Danish history : Danelagen 🏴 (viking towns in England) and De vestindiske øer (Virgin Islands) that we sold to the US.
Wow! That was really interesting with lots of info which was unknown to me. Tallinn looks really beautiful, a bit like Riga in style but that's perhaps only logical.
Maybe visit Skåne, there is quite a bit of history between Denmark and Sweden there. Other parts of Sweden or Norway would be nice as well.. You could also visit Normandy (named after the norsemen) which has quite a bit of viking history. Anyways, love these videos regardless :D
For an interesting historic city with links to Denmark, consider visiting Lund. It is less than an hour's drive from Copenhagen. Lund is in Skåne, which - together with Halland and Blekinge - was Danish until it became Swedish with the peace agreement in 1658.
Narva has an other danish connection. In 1700 Denmark-Norway together with Russia and Polen Sachsen attacked Sweden. Then Sweden ruled Estonia. The battle between Sweden and Russia at Narva, was won by Sweden. Carl XII and his soldiers (Karoliner), but when they continued in to Russia, they wasn't so lucky. Lost big at Poltava.In the WWII there was another Battle at Narva, between Soviet union ans Germans holding the city. 150000 russians and 20000 germans was killed in the 7 month siege and battle. The town was in ruins. Other battles has been at Narva. Sweden and Russia 1581 and Estonia-Sovjet union 1918-19.
Here is a list from the top of my head: Greenland Iceland Faroe islands Off course Sweden and Norway England Normandy Guldkysten, Ghana Vestindiske øer New Foundland Tranquebar, Indien Have a nice trip ;-)
Almost all of England was Danish for a couple of hundred years. The Danish capital in England was York, short for ”Jorvik” (=horse bay). A lot of placenames bear traces of Denmark in Britain too. ”Rugby” is for exemple Danish, and comes from ”Rokby” (=the city of Ravens). Of course, in the viking era, danish didn’t exist. In those times both Norse and Swedish vikings spoke the same language as the Danish vikings - ”dansk tunga” (=Danish tongue). The English language of course originated in the south of Denmark (Angeln is near Kiel in the north of Germany) around 450, so when the Danish vikings arrived in England in around 800, the languages were quite similar. Therefore a lot of Danish words entered English in those days: ”husband” comes from ”husbondi”, ”leg” comes from Old Norse ”leggr” (=leg), in Danish ”laeg”. Words like ”is” and ”are”, ”am”, ”they”, ”them”, ”their”, and so on, comes from the vikings at that time. The grammar of English is heavily influenced by the Danes. Before the Vikings English grammaticly much more resembled German. We can go on. Denmark is very closely linked to the British history. I must mention too, that vikings founded Russia in 862. The name ”Russia” comes from the name of the Vikings - ”Rus”. The name derives from ”Roslagen” in the archipelago of Stockholm, Sweden. The name means ”rowing teams”.
A. Nevsky cathedral is a symbol of Russification for ethnic Estonians, so we dislike it. Estonian culture is mostly based on Lutheranism like in other Nordic countries and Finnic tradition which we share with Finns.
Tallinn, such a pretty place, full of some lovely people! The castle in town, reminded me of the Crusader Castles in Rhodes, Carcassonne & Malta..😉 Looking for something Danish, then you can travel from Tranquebar, India where DK had a small colony in 1620's to St.Thomas, St, Jan & St. Croix, in the West Indies where we plundered and colonized along with the rest of 'them' from 1670's-1917. We sold them to the US, for strategic placement and to help DK out of the financial crisis created by WWI where DK was neutral and suffered the import/export trade blockades. Of course there is still 'the North' to explore 😉 and even the coasts of Spain & Gran Canaria, where Danes have settled and you can have frikadeller for dinner! Happy journeying! hello from Hundested 🌸 🌱
Well, if we are talking about former Danish colonies, then it is worth remembering "The Danish Gold Coast" (Approximately the Ghana area, today.), however, it is currently one of the more dangerous areas to be a tourist in. We Danes have a tendency to prefer to forget about it, as it reminds us about the slave trade, which danish companies earned a huge amount of money at, and Denmark was the last of the "7 European Atlantic coast colonial powers" (Spain, Portugal, France, England, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Denmark) to stop trading slaves (Not due to Danish own initiative, but due to “The Empire on which the sun never sets” checked if everyone respected the ban on slave-trade), kinda sad, as in Africa Denmark is seen in a positive light; being the first nation to recognize black people to be humans! Making it a good thing to be Danish in most of Africa. ( -> All of Africa, except the Muslim parts.) Danish colonial era is a blurry concept, due to several reasons. One of them is that some Danish colonies were lost, along with Norway, as a result of the end of the Napoleonic War. (And now considered to be Norwegian colonies) Was Norway a Danish colony? -> Like Scotland was/is an English colony?
@@larsdahl5528 Jep, that coast too, which does not paint a pretty picture either...sign of the times 🤔😡 and no, Norway was not a colony. It was part of greater Denmark, along with Southern Sweden and Northern Germany..but that is a different history lesson 😉🤣
Gōteborg in Sweden - I find it interesting that's the only city on their west coast, there always has been swedish. To the south of Gōteborg - Danes, to the north - Norwegian
Then you would will have an reason to go to Carabien ( St Thomas, St Jan and St. Croix ) which is a dark side of Danish history. Colonised in 1672 and sold to the US in 1917. Or Norway & Sweden, which was ruled by Denmark, the last time from 1397 until 1817 ( Sweden rebelled in 1523 ) by the Kalmarunion made by the Danish Queen - Margrethe the 1. ( the Kalmarunion is also why Greenland is under the Danish Crown )
That was not much good. But I can tell you something interresting. The myth of the danish flag, Dannebrog, falling from the sky in Estonia originate from a meteor that fell in the bronze age in Estonia. It is mentioned in the sagas as a scary sunset in the east. The crater can still be seen. It is on the island Saaremaa, Øsel in scandinavian. and it is called Kaali Crater. But I guess you did not visit there.
You wanna know about other places where Denmark has made their footprint A place Denmark had an influence upon once was the West Indies, yeah it was actually Danish territory until we sold it around 100 years ago to the United States for $25million.... As I understand it, there are still many Danish street names over there Norway was also once Danish, Island too until 1944, but you have been there and then the southern part of Sweden is also old Danish territory, stolen from os in a war with Sweden in 16 hundred and something Great video by the way. it is impressive how much you go up in Denmark
I think a trip to north Germany.Before it was east Germany.Or DDR.Mecklenburg ,Pommeren.There are a lots building down there..The danish "buildig King" Chr d. 4..Ex. in Greifwald and Rygen.But take care they still understand danish..He.he
Mange tak for svaret 👍. Det jeg mener er at hvis der skrives en kommentar på for eks svensk så kan man trykke oversæt kommentar til engelsk. Det kunne været rigtig fedt hvis jeg kunne gøre det til dansk 😁.
@@larslindthomsen7370 Hvis du holder fingeren på billedet i kommentar boksen åbner den for sig selv og nederst er en boks hvor der stå oversæt til Engelsk
Her er lidt beskrivelse af steder nær og fjern som der kan besøges, lige fra Ghana, Gotland, Skåne, Dansk Vestindien, Trankebar og selv for mange danskere det ukendte Serampore, tjek det fx. på Wikipedia, plus mange andre steder. Link. da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danske_besiddelser#Afviklingen_af_kolonierne_i_Asien
Yes, I am 70 so I konw our danish history, and I am proud you want to teach others about it. And as you said in another video "I dont want to be poltical", I dont either, but what I found interesting in this video is to watch an american carmly whatcing out of a window in a ruined castel looking just 400 meters into the russian border. Didnt that scare you ? Russia is so close to us. If Young respond I will tell you why Russia is called Russia (or in danish RUS-LAND), it is a story about the Vikings.
Well, I made this video last fall, almost a year ago now. The climate was different at that time and I was not at all scared. I probably wouldn’t make the same exact trip today.
If you ever want to see a darker part of Danish history you should go to the beautiful Ghana where Denmark used to get slaves to take to the West Indian Islands. Our school used to have a friendship school in Obuasi, Ghana and I went there to visit the school back in 2007.
I think - that you will end up know more about Danish history than many Danes do. Thanks a lot for a great piece of work -:)
Haha, thanks! Trying to learn, it’s fun to have all these new bits of history to explore.
This was interesting. I learned quite a few new things and Estonia is now on my to do list.
Super cool!
I remember Dannebrog 800 anniversary events that were held here in 2019. It was nice. Also their language sounds nice, I sometimes listen to Kim Larsen, Tommy Seebach or whatever the algorithm comes up with.
I've also met some Danish troops here. Good lads.
Thank you for this very very interesting video, I can´t remenber learning anything about Estonia in school. I would love to visit Tallin, such a beautiful city.
So glad you liked it! You should definitely visit Tallinn.
Tallinn with 2 n. Linn is city in estonian. When soviets occupied Estonia , they started writing Tallinn with 1 n . They do not have 2 n-s together.
@@eriktael thank you for making me aware of this :)
Great and interesting video.
As a Dane, I learned a couple of new things here.
Didn't know about the castle in Narva.
Yout trip through Tallinn made me homesick - I spend New years there 2018/19 - 4 days.
I loved the city.
It is gorgeous, so glad you enjoyed it!
In 1985 I went with my 9. klasse to Leningrad for our “skolerejse”(school trip) before we graduated. Our”tolk” (interpreter) was a young woman from Estonia. She had never been outside Estonia before she had the job to interpret for us. Her danish was eloquent and way more “perfect” that that of our teachers. Very impressive. I still remember how astonished we all were about her language. She had learnt Danish from sitting in a small booth for hours on end. Impressive yet scary in a way
The Orthodox Alexander Nevsky Cathedral is quite hated by Estonians as it was built as a symbol of Russian imperialism in a traditionally Lutheran medieval old town and there were even serious plans of demolishing it in the 1920s.
@@zana01 why the fuck would we be done with hating Russian imperialism? And it is widely known that the church is hated.
Thank you for a great history tour 👍
You are welcome!
The swedish island of Gotland off the swedish east coast, has lots of connections to Denmark. King Valdemar set up court there. Beautiful nature, charming towns and exiting history.
Cool!
Thanks for the guided tour, Josh! - You've definitely made me want to visit these places myself.
Awesome!
Cool video, Josh! I honestly did not know any of the places you visited in Estonia, but it was very educational. Looking forward to your next video!
For historical danish sites, I recommend you check out Dannevirke in northern Germany. It was built as a defensive wall for Denmark and dates all the way back to the viking age. It was even used by the danish army in 1864, when Prussia invaded.
Glad you liked it! I’ll definitely explore more of Germany with things opening again.
@@TravelinYoung I would definitely recommend Hedeby (Haithabu in German) as well. It's very close to Dannevirke (Danewerk in German), and was, IIRC, Europe's biggest trading hub in the viking ages.
Nice to "revisit" Tallinn, thanks.
Can’t believe I haven’t seen this before 👍🏻😊🇩🇰Great job touring
Nice new format/topic, cool.
Thanks, we’ll do this from time to time. It’s a fun way to look at places a little different.
Wow, this video is so educational from a Danish point of view. I learned about Dannebrog as a kid, but now I feel inspired to visit Estonia. It must be very exciting for you to teach us Danes all this and you must feel very international being a US guy tracing Danish history in Estonia right on the border to Russia! Cool. Thanks for sharing
Welcome to the Estonia!
Thanks!
Very interesting, much appreciated.
Loving all the b-roll
Thanks!
Very neat, Joshua!!
Not much in the Danish history books in school about Estonia, apart from the flag of course..
Glad you liked it!
Thank you so much for sharing 😊 VERY intresting history 👌
You are welcome :).
I think it's fine with most of us, that your sponsored, to some degree. I like that your totally honest about it ! No BS 👍 ! BTW! You Youngs are doing a great job selling Denmark and the rest of Europe to us. Estonia wasn't on the top of my bucket list. It just got upgraded 😊 ! Posted on my FB site. You need to go to the USVI (Dansk Vestindiske Øer). Danish from 1672 -1917. Be aware. They drive on the left. A CBP officer told us that it was something they still did, after the Danes left. He was shocked, when we told him that we'd been driving on the right for more than a 100 years 😎 ! Didn't manage to visit St.Croax. But St.Thomas and St.John were amassing 👍😀👍.
You should check out Vitus Bering. His story is very interesting. He was a Danish cartographer and explorer in Russian service, and an officer in the Russian Navy. He is known as a leader of two Russian expeditions, namely the First Kamchatka Expedition and the Great Northern Expedition, exploring the north-eastern coast of the Asian continent and from there the western coast on the North American continent. The Bering Strait, the Bering Sea, Bering Island, the Bering Glacier and the Bering Land Bridge were all named in his honor.
It’s a long travel to visit the Bering sea 🌊
@@denmark39 lol yeah. Though if they are going to visit America one day again - they could go see Vitus Lake in Alaska, maybe even the Berings strait.
Though they can just start in Denmark, in Horsens - where Vitus Bering is from. They have a great collection of stuff on and about him.
When in Finland you benefit of referring only to his surname.
@@olufbagger what do you mean?
@@denmark39 Well, the name "Vitus" has some similarity with a "bad word" in the Finnish language. I don't think any Finn will be offended when hearing this name, but some people seem to love making jokes about this.
Chasing Danish history... Great idea! You could make a trip to Skåne and I recommend you take the very short ferry ride from Helsingør to Helsingborg because that city in of itself is worth a visit. Malmø was once Denmarks second largest city and Lund was where the Archbishop of Denmark resided.
Glad you like it! For sure we will visit Sweden.
Great video ! 👏
Thanks!
Thank you for sharing our history.
Next time mayby the old part of Sweden: Halland, Skåne og Blekinge.
Correction: Old part of Denmark.
@@JanBruunAndersen ja jeg skrev det for hurtigt ☺️
You could visit Schleswig, here is a danish minority a population of approx. 50,000 people, most of them living in Flensborg, which was Danish until 1864. If you have any questions you can contact me
Yeah I do plan to see that bit of Germany now that things are opening back up.
You should visit Skåne, Blekinge and Halland in South Sweden. It was former east Danmark before 1658 and the peace of Roskilde when Danmark was forced to hand over the three provinces after they lost a war to Sweden. Their is a lot of interesting history contacted to Danmark in this part of Sweden.
Love the fact you where in my home country! Live in Norway and been watching your videos before just supper!did you know first real king of Norway was a slave as a child in Estonian island!
Tallinn, nice :)
I think you should check out the Slesvig (Schlesvig)Holstein area. It's a very interesting place and shows the conflict between Germany and Denmark along the years and into WW2...
Moreover, Great Video !!
You should probably go to Dannevirke.
You should visit the Faroe Islands ( I think you already went to Iceland)
Definitely high on the list!
I find it impressive how popular Denmark seems in Estonia, considering that we were foreigners occupying their land.
I don't know how good or bad we were treating the population back then, but I guess Estonia has been so much worse things since then, so perhaps we're just "not so bad" 😁
Anyway, again this time, I like the new format a whole lot. So I hope it'll be sustainable in the long run. Great video and great storytelling, without digging too deep into boring details.
Definitely "not so bad" as Sweden treated them during the "stormaktstiden" era.
Estonians have been slaves for somewhere around 700 years. We do not act as victims. We show as things were. The Russian Empire built the Nevsky Cathedral to show power over the Estonians. We did not demolish it either in 1918 or in 1991 when Estonia became independent. It's part of our history.
The Swedish occupation is considered to be the best time in Estonian history. Probably not the best time under Denmark because you sold the land to the Germans. The reason was the frequent uprisings of Estonians.
@@rapator9270 thanks for your honest perspective 🙂 hope we can still be friends today.
Edit: it's just important to remember that we came as invaders, not liberators.
@@BenjaminVestergaard Back in the time this was perfectly normal behavior. During the Viking era, Estonians also burned down the Swedish capital.
great vid
Thanks!
Linn in old Estonian language meant Castle, in modern Estonian town. Linna in Finnish still means castle.
In my opinion, 'linn' has never had the meaning of a castle in Estonian. Rather, it is from a fortress, 'linnus', which was often built on the hills, which was called city hills [linnamägi]. The opposite is, for example, Viljandi castle hills [lossimäed].
But I'm not a cultural historian.
@@jaan1902 agree
I believe having read somewhere that the invasion of Estonia required 3000 ships and is thus the second largest naval operation in history after D-day.
Interesting if that is the case.
@@TravelinYoung yeah. As I remember the story, it was written by an eyewitness who stood on the bank and described the scenery. "There were so many ships that you could not see the water they were on".
You could have taken back home something sweet - Kalev, Estonia’s most beloved chocolate brand has a chocolate box called “Tallinn” and the illustrator for it is Mads Berg and he is Danish.
In Tamil Nadu, Tranquebar; and in W. Bengal, Serampore//Frederiknagore; and rather briefly, the group of islands called the Nicobars, were all subjects of Danish colonial interest in India;; On the Danske Guldkyst, in what is now Ghana, were some 5 busy trading emporiums, the oldest, in what Is now Accra (Ft Christiansborg) and four more trading forts eastward along Ghana's coast. Next, across the Oresund, is the Swedish, but formerly Danish, province of Scania. South of Danish Jutland are the southern parts of that peninsula, the German provinces of Schleswig and Holstein, formerly under the Danish crown. Also under the Danish crown for a significant number of years was the island of Rugen on which, like Estonia, might be found Danish traces. Most people already can name the present "Danish Realm" as well as the long relationship with Norway from which Danish gets her "Oldenburg Dynasty" as well as Iceland which was "inherited" from Norway (to become an independent republic in 1944). As for Estonia, some Danish influence might also be visible on Saaremaa.
I love this video and this concept 🇩🇰🇩🇰🎉🎉😁🤩👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 I would love, if you went to Visby (Gotland, Sweden), Greenland, Iceland, Faroe Islands, Vinland (Canada), The gold Coast in Ghana, Danish Westindies (currently U.S. Virgin Islands), Schleswig (Germany).
To combine some Danish and US history - you could do a trip to the Caribbean and to the old "Danish West Indies" islands that the US purchased in 1917 from Denmark (Saint Thomas, John and Croix).
Ireland or Sweden are obvious choices to visit regarding Danish history :) Ireland (Eire) mostly about the Vikings (You cant visit a pub in Galway and tell people your a Dane, without getting hours of stories about the Vikings - Most Irish people loved them, even though we weren't exactly friendly visitors back then haha) And Sweden about the wars, Kings ect.. :) There´s also the border to Germany, which has been moved up and down several times :)
Slainthe! 😛🍻
On the list :).
The word *linn* in old estonian meant 'castle or 'fort''. Since towns developed aroud the castles, the word transferred to also meaning the new type of settlement. Estonians in 13th c. did not have town, so they didn't have a word for it. For example in Saaremaa there are ruins of a danish castle called Maasilinn. Maasi being the name of the village there. There are other examples for 'linn' w/o towns.
nice experience you have ... but it is a little wild is to think that the word "York" is an old Nordic word for "city" (in Danish: "by")
Interesting place. Good thing that the Baltic countries have joined NATO and the EU, now that Putin apparently wants to recreate the USSR by force. Other places with Danish history : Danelagen 🏴 (viking towns in England) and De vestindiske øer (Virgin Islands) that we sold to the US.
Thank you . That was very interesting. You do such a great job. Happy travels.❤️🇩🇰🇺🇸🇩🇰🇺🇸🇩🇰
Wow! That was really interesting with lots of info which was unknown to me. Tallinn looks really beautiful, a bit like Riga in style but that's perhaps only logical.
It is a pretty city. I’ve been to Riga as well, but feel Tallinn is better preserved.
Maybe visit Skåne, there is quite a bit of history between Denmark and Sweden there. Other parts of Sweden or Norway would be nice as well..
You could also visit Normandy (named after the norsemen) which has quite a bit of viking history. Anyways, love these videos regardless :D
Definitely!
For an interesting historic city with links to Denmark, consider visiting Lund. It is less than an hour's drive from Copenhagen.
Lund is in Skåne, which - together with Halland and Blekinge - was Danish until it became Swedish with the peace agreement in 1658.
For sure, we’ve been to Lund but a few years ago. Super easy trip over and a good idea for a future video.
Narva has an other danish connection. In 1700 Denmark-Norway together with Russia and Polen Sachsen attacked Sweden. Then Sweden ruled Estonia. The battle between Sweden and Russia at Narva, was won by Sweden. Carl XII and his soldiers (Karoliner), but when they continued in to Russia, they wasn't so lucky. Lost big at Poltava.In the WWII there was another Battle at Narva, between Soviet union ans Germans holding the city. 150000 russians and 20000 germans was killed in the 7 month siege and battle. The town was in ruins. Other battles has been at Narva. Sweden and Russia 1581 and Estonia-Sovjet union 1918-19.
Interesting, Narva was a busy spot.
Here is a list from the top of my head:
Greenland
Iceland
Faroe islands
Off course Sweden and Norway
England
Normandy
Guldkysten, Ghana
Vestindiske øer
New Foundland
Tranquebar, Indien
Have a nice trip ;-)
Love it, so many places to see :).
du you know about to the two "Danish" cities in America Solvang and Elk horn
I do yes, but they are pretty far from places we’d visit.
@@TravelinYoung ok... long drives are a no go for me to
@@TravelinYoung if you want the Danish German relationship I have a few suggestions for you.
Almost all of England was Danish for a couple of hundred years. The Danish capital in England was York, short for ”Jorvik” (=horse bay). A lot of placenames bear traces of Denmark in Britain too. ”Rugby” is for exemple Danish, and comes from ”Rokby” (=the city of Ravens). Of course, in the viking era, danish didn’t exist. In those times both Norse and Swedish vikings spoke the same language as the Danish vikings - ”dansk tunga” (=Danish tongue).
The English language of course originated in the south of Denmark (Angeln is near Kiel in the north of Germany) around 450, so when the Danish vikings arrived in England in around 800, the languages were quite similar. Therefore a lot of Danish words entered English in those days: ”husband” comes from ”husbondi”, ”leg” comes from Old Norse ”leggr” (=leg), in Danish ”laeg”. Words like ”is” and ”are”, ”am”, ”they”, ”them”, ”their”, and so on, comes from the vikings at that time. The grammar of English is heavily influenced by the Danes. Before the Vikings English grammaticly much more resembled German. We can go on. Denmark is very closely linked to the British history.
I must mention too, that vikings founded Russia in 862. The name ”Russia” comes from the name of the Vikings - ”Rus”. The name derives from ”Roslagen” in the archipelago of Stockholm, Sweden. The name means ”rowing teams”.
A. Nevsky cathedral is a symbol of Russification for ethnic Estonians, so we dislike it. Estonian culture is mostly based on Lutheranism like in other Nordic countries and Finnic tradition which we share with Finns.
Tallinn, such a pretty place, full of some lovely people! The castle in town, reminded me of the Crusader Castles in Rhodes, Carcassonne & Malta..😉
Looking for something Danish, then you can travel from Tranquebar, India where DK had a small colony in 1620's
to St.Thomas, St, Jan & St. Croix, in the West Indies where we plundered and colonized along with the rest of 'them' from 1670's-1917.
We sold them to the US, for strategic placement and to help DK out of the financial crisis created by WWI where DK was neutral and suffered the import/export trade blockades.
Of course there is still 'the North' to explore 😉 and even the coasts of Spain & Gran Canaria, where Danes have settled and you can have frikadeller for dinner! Happy journeying!
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Well, if we are talking about former Danish colonies, then it is worth remembering "The Danish Gold Coast" (Approximately the Ghana area, today.), however, it is currently one of the more dangerous areas to be a tourist in.
We Danes have a tendency to prefer to forget about it, as it reminds us about the slave trade, which danish companies earned a huge amount of money at, and Denmark was the last of the "7 European Atlantic coast colonial powers" (Spain, Portugal, France, England, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Denmark) to stop trading slaves (Not due to Danish own initiative, but due to “The Empire on which the sun never sets” checked if everyone respected the ban on slave-trade), kinda sad, as in Africa Denmark is seen in a positive light; being the first nation to recognize black people to be humans! Making it a good thing to be Danish in most of Africa. ( -> All of Africa, except the Muslim parts.)
Danish colonial era is a blurry concept, due to several reasons. One of them is that some Danish colonies were lost, along with Norway, as a result of the end of the Napoleonic War. (And now considered to be Norwegian colonies)
Was Norway a Danish colony? -> Like Scotland was/is an English colony?
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Jep, that coast too, which does not paint a pretty picture either...sign of the times 🤔😡
and no, Norway was not a colony.
It was part of greater Denmark, along with Southern Sweden and Northern Germany..but that is a different history lesson 😉🤣
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spell check is so annoying! thank you 😊
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Tjek out Trankebar in India 🇩🇰🙂
Gōteborg in Sweden - I find it interesting that's the only city on their west coast, there always has been swedish. To the south of Gōteborg - Danes, to the north - Norwegian
Bohus castle north of Goteborg - have the most Scandinavian conflict history that I know of. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohus_Fortress
Cool, great idea. We’ve been before but years ago.
Then you would will have an reason to go to Carabien ( St Thomas, St Jan and St. Croix ) which is a dark side of Danish history. Colonised in 1672 and sold to the US in 1917. Or Norway & Sweden, which was ruled by Denmark, the last time from 1397 until 1817 ( Sweden rebelled in 1523 ) by the Kalmarunion made by the Danish Queen - Margrethe the 1. ( the Kalmarunion is also why Greenland is under the Danish Crown )
That was not much good. But I can tell you something interresting. The myth of the danish flag, Dannebrog, falling from the sky in Estonia originate from a meteor that fell in the bronze age in Estonia. It is mentioned in the sagas as a scary sunset in the east. The crater can still be seen. It is on the island Saaremaa, Øsel in scandinavian. and it is called Kaali Crater. But I guess you did not visit there.
You wanna know about other places where Denmark has made their footprint
A place Denmark had an influence upon once was the West Indies, yeah it was actually Danish territory until we sold it around 100 years ago to the United States for $25million.... As I understand it, there are still many Danish street names over there
Norway was also once Danish, Island too until 1944, but you have been there and then the southern part of Sweden is also old Danish territory, stolen from os in a war with Sweden in 16 hundred and something
Great video by the way. it is impressive how much you go up in Denmark
I think a trip to north Germany.Before it was east Germany.Or DDR.Mecklenburg ,Pommeren.There are a lots building down there..The danish "buildig King" Chr d. 4..Ex. in Greifwald and Rygen.But take care they still understand danish..He.he
Hej 😁. Dejlig video 👍. Er der en der kan fortælle mig hvordan jeg sætter oversætter på under kommentaren . På forhånd mange tak. Mvh Lars
Hej, jeg oversætter altid i google oversæt, kopier og sætter ind i kommentaren 😁
Mange tak for svaret 👍. Det jeg mener er at hvis der skrives en kommentar på for eks svensk så kan man trykke oversæt kommentar til engelsk. Det kunne været rigtig fedt hvis jeg kunne gøre det til dansk 😁.
@@larslindthomsen7370 Hvis du holder fingeren på billedet i kommentar boksen åbner den for sig selv og nederst er en boks hvor der stå oversæt til Engelsk
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Her er lidt beskrivelse af steder nær og fjern som der kan besøges, lige fra Ghana, Gotland, Skåne, Dansk Vestindien, Trankebar og selv for mange danskere det ukendte Serampore, tjek det fx. på Wikipedia, plus mange andre steder.
Link.
da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danske_besiddelser#Afviklingen_af_kolonierne_i_Asien
Relax you dont have too do danish stuff always but of course we love it we are just courios of your danish life ( : ( :
Yes, I am 70 so I konw our danish history, and I am proud you want to teach others about it.
And as you said in another video "I dont want to be poltical", I dont either, but what I found
interesting in this video is to watch an american carmly whatcing out of a window in a ruined castel looking
just 400 meters into the russian border. Didnt that scare you ? Russia is so close to us.
If Young respond I will tell you why Russia is called Russia (or in danish RUS-LAND), it is a story about the Vikings.
Well, I made this video last fall, almost a year ago now. The climate was different at that time and I was not at all scared. I probably wouldn’t make the same exact trip today.
If you ever want to see a darker part of Danish history you should go to the beautiful Ghana where Denmark used to get slaves to take to the
West Indian Islands.
Our school used to have a friendship school in Obuasi, Ghana and I went there to visit the school back in 2007.
When you say "Germans" - I suppose it's the Teutonic order, you think of?
Must be. And by the way the Teutonic order was under control of The Holy Roman Empire.
You are right. Danes sold these lands to Teutonic order as Saint Mary's Land (Maarjamaa in estonian)
Yeah, and super interesting as we happened to visit Malbork a few weeks ago, the Teutonic HQ.
Ur not right about tallinn coming from taani linn, danish town.
Next time you are in the US. You could Visit Elk Horn In Iowa. That town has really danish history
It is kinda far from our family, but maybe one day.
@@TravelinYoung Understandable. I am looking forward to your next video. 🤗
Well Ghana has a lot of danish history... more a dark side, but very important to remember.🇬🇭🇩🇰
too bad yoi missed Viljandi! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viljandi_Castle